Word: cochrane
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Although best known for his central role on the O.J. Simpson defense team, famed attorney Johnnie Cochran barely touched on "the trial of the century" in his address yesterday at the Institute of Politics' (IOP) ARCO Forum...
...Instead, Cochran spoke mostly about another client, Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, who after a twenty-year legal battle was recently acquitted of a murder charge...
...Most of the time I represent not the O.J.'s, not the famous people," Cochran said. "I represent the no-J's. The people you've never heard...
...Cochran was introduced to the packed audience by Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree...
Ogletree described Cochran as "a marvel of excellent lawyering," a man whose work against police brutality prior to the celebrity of the Simpson case, receives little attention...